University of North Carolina at Asheville D. Hiden Ramsey Library Special Collections/University Archives Oral History Register for Louis D. Silveri, Ph.D. Oral History Collection
Title	Louis D. Silveri Oral History Collection
Creator	Louis D. Silveri
Alt. Creator	Audrey Silveri (wife)
Subject: LCSH	Silveri, Louis D., 1931-2004 Asheville (N.C.) -- Buildings, structures, etc. Architecture -- North Carolina -- Asheville Historic buildings -- North Carolina -- Asheville Popular culture -- Appalachian Region -- History -- 20th century Appalachian Region -- Social conditions -- 20th century Appalachian Region -- Social conditions -- 21st century Oral history Oral history -- Appalachian Region, Southern
Subject Keyword	Southern Highlands Research Center ; Buncombe County government ; Asheville, NC ; photographs ; architecture ; history western North Carolina ; Appalachian history ; oral history ;
Description	The Louis D. Silveri Oral History Collection is made up of Oral Histories conducted by Dr. Silveri .
Publisher	D. H. Ramsey Library Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville, NC, 28804
Contributor	Southern Highlands Research Center
Date	Electronic Record Issued: 2009-03-30
Type	Sound ; Text
Format	3 OH cartons holding 37 Oral History expandable folders
Identifier	http://toto.lib.unca.edu/findingaids/oralhistory/SHRC/silveri_louis_collection.html
Source	Louis Silveri Oral History Collection, D. H. Ramsey Library Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville
Language	English
Relation	Louis D. Silveri Collection http://toto.lib.unca.edu/findingaids/mss/silveri_louis/default_silveri_louis.htm
Coverage	1852-1923 ; Asheville, NC
Rights	Any display, publication, or public use must credit the D.H. Ramsey Library Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville. Copyright retained by the authors of certain items in the collection, or their descendents, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Acquisition	Donor number: 21; Date of acquisition: May 2008
Processed By	Special Collections staff
Interview Dates	1977 to 1992
Interview Location	Unique for each Oral History
Biography	Louis Silveri, the son of Luigi and Mary (Cartullo) Silveri, grew up in Brockton, Massachusetts and later moved with his family to Holden, MA, where he lived for some forty years. He was a Korean War veteran and after the war he pursued a Master's Degree in American History at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. and followed that with a Doctorate in American History from St. John's University, in Queens, N.Y. in 1964. In addition to his formal degrees, Dr. Silveri was a Fulbright Fellow and also pursued post-doctoral work at Harvard University and at North Carolina State University. While on sabbatical in 1972 from Assumption College in Worcester, MA, Silveri decided to give his family the experience of living in another part of the country. He obtained a teaching job at the University of North Carolina Asheville and moved with his wife and 5 children to a house in Haw Creek in Buncombe County. He was interested in doing research on the effect of the New Deal on this part of the country. After reading "These Are Our Lives," oral histories collected by the Federal Writers Project of the Works Progress Administration, he decided to interview people in the Asheville area. His interviews, recorded during the 1970's, formed the nucleus of the oral history collection of the UNCA Southern Highlands Research Center, the predecessor of the D.H. Ramsey Library Special Collections. At UNCA he taught courses on 20th century American history, U.S. diplomacy and the Civil War. Dr. Silveri was an accomplished oral historian and assembled what came to be known as the "Louis D. Silveri Oral History Collection," at the University of North Carolina at Asheville, as well as collections at Berea College in Kentucky, where he also taught. He wrote and published many works on Appalachian history and developed many popular classes while at Assumption College, Berea, and Asheville, on both U.S. and world history topics. Dr. Silveri died on November 3, 2004 in Holden, MA. At the time of his death, he was still on the faculty at Assumption College where he had taught for nearly 35 year as Professor Emeritus. He was 73 years old at the time of death. The University of North Carolina at Asheville is indebted to Dr. Silveri for his thoughtful interviews and the rich cultural material contained in the many tapes he left with the University. His work is a benchmark of good scholarship and skill in the collecting of oral histories.
List of Interviews	Daintry Allison J. Wilson Ayers Jesse James Bailey Ronald Lloyd Baker John Baxter Reverend James H. Black Harry Chepriss Mary Chiltosky Hugh Creasman Hardy Davidson Henry Irven Gaines Dorothy Gaston Lucy S. Herring Dorothy Snell Howald Dr. Thomas Howald Benjamin R. Hunter Richard Jarrett John E. Jervis Gwynn (G. T.) Jones	Mary Jones Marie Halbert King Dr. George B. Lynch Ernest McKissick and Magnolia Thompson McKissick W.K. McLean Artus Monroe Moser Frank Mulvaney Dr. Russell Lee Norburn William Nothstein Roy Rice Colonel Paul Rockwell Virginia Bryan Schreiber Dr. Mary Frances (Polly) Shuford George Myers Stephens Charles G. "Buzz" Tennent David "Fox" Watson Charlotte Young
Additional Files	Reverend Lonnie Crawford North Carolina Coalition Eleventh Congressional District, Second Meeting - May 20, 1972 Luther Thomas and Beatrice G. Thomas
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